High-Performance Computing Solutions

LENOVO HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Choose Lenovo for Your HPC Solution

Improving risk analytics, shortening product development cycles, and simulating the behavior of materials at nanoscale have something in common—the need to model, forecast, and analyze complex relationships. All place enormous demands on your data and compute infrastructure.

An HPC Portfolio to Meet Your Needs

Spanning entry x86 servers through supercomputers, converged storage servers, and intelligent cluster solutions, Lenovo can provide you with the right system to meet your high-performance computing (HPC) and big data needs.

NeXtScale System delivers the density, flexibility, and scale needed to cost-effectively process your most demanding workloads. With an integrated architecture approach, you can easily mix and match air- or water-cooled servers, accelerators, and storage in a dense chassis and use industry-standard networking and racks for ultimate cost savings.

Lenovo offers a broad portfolio of x86 servers designed to support a wide variety of business and technical applications. Lenovo rack-mount and high-end servers offer an outstanding balance of performance and flexibility for HPC and big data users

The high-end System x3750 and System x X6 family uniquely offer large memory and storage capacity to address your mission-critical database and high-performance big data workload needs

Flex System enables you to combine the latest x86 compute nodes with integrated storage, networking, and switch backplane for a robust blade system that’s ideal for enterprise clients·

Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM® Spectrum Scale™ (DSS-G) combines the performance of Lenovo servers and Lenovo disk enclosures with industry-leading Spectrum Scale software from IBM to offer a high-performance, scalable building-block approach to HPC and technical IT storage needs. Lenovo DSS-G allows organizations to start small and build via incremental additions, providing expanded capacity and bandwidth with each additional DSS-G building-block. Clients now have the ability to handle small to very large capacity storage workloads with high performance in HPC environments

Lenovo Scalable Infrastructure (LeSI) is a framework for the development, configuration, build, delivery and support of integrated data center solutions. LeSI provides the flexibility and choice from configured systems over factory-integrated solutions up to fully end-to-end supported solutions that match best-in-industry components with optimized solution design.

Lenovo & Third-Party Networking Choices

Networking is an important element of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and scale-out environments, providing connectivity and increased bandwidth for data exchanged between nodes, racks, and beyond. Today, Ethernet and InfiniBand are the primary technologies used in the industry for building clusters. What’s unique about Lenovo is the level of integration and choice of entry through high-end, low-latency networking products to meet your workload needs.

Lenovo Networking offers a portfolio of Lenovo-engineered and designed low-latency 1 Gb, 10 Gb, and 40 Gb Ethernet switches, which can be used in building clusters with traditional rack servers, Flex System, and NeXtScale offerings. As a result of being developed in-house, Lenovo Ethernet products deliver exceptional performance and are extremely energy efficient, with attractive pricing.

Mellanox® offers the industry's most robust InfiniBand and Ethernet portfolio including industry-leading EDR 100 Gb/s InfiniBand switch capable of delivering aggregate data throughput up to 7 Tb/s of non-blocking bandwith with 130 ns port-to-port latency. To provide you with more flexibility, Lenovo sells Mellanox adapters and switches as standalone products or as part of an integrated Lenovo Intelligent Cluster solution.

Intel® and Lenovo partner to deliver world-class fabric solutions to meet the growing needs of HPC and big data customers. Offering a full line of high performance adapters, switches, cables, and software designed to cost-effectively scale from entry-level clusters to supercomputers, Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) provides unparalleled price/performance, density, and reliability. With ultra-fast 100 Gbps line speeds, up to 25 Gbps/port bi-directional bandwidth, aggregate switch throughput up to 9.6 Tb/s and a robust software suite, Intel OPA helps minimize fabric bottlenecks and accelerate performance.

HPC Management Choices

In order to simplify deploying and managing a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, grid, or HPC cloud, to run more simulators faster, and to minimize data bottlenecks, you should consider deploying HPC management software. Lenovo can provide you with the right software for your needs.

Elastic Storage Management

IBM® Spectrum Scale™ is the most widely used commercial parallel file system for online storage management, fast, highly scalable data access, and integrated information lifecycle management. Spectrum Scale is capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files without disrupting applications, and is recommended as an integral part of your software-defined storage strategy

Broad ISV Ecosystem

Since Lenovo has performed Intel® Cluster Ready testing, you can be confident your Lenovo HPC cluster will run a wide-variety of ISV applications and industry-standard components as it should—right away. Visit the Intel Cluster Ready site for a list of registered software solutions that have been validated through this program.

Better Results, Lower Cost & Faster Time-to-Market

Lenovo offers a broad range of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to address business and technical challenges across many industries. Learn how Lenovo is helping engineering firms accelerate simulation and analytics, life sciences research and development organizations speed drug discovery and genomics sequencing insights, and financial services firms boost high-frequency trading and risk analytics applications.

Lenovo Solutions for Engineering Analysis

The defense and transportation industries, including automotive, aerospace, rail, and shipping are rapidly changing. Financial pressures are growing while the expectation for innovation remains high with increased pressure for faster time to market.

Lenovo Solutions for Life Sciences and Healthcare

Personalized healthcare with novel drug and treatment options are advancing at a rapid pace. Healthcare and life sciences organizations are incorporating new methods of big data analysis, drug discovery, and delivery to enable personalized medicine and to deliver diagnoses and treatment regimens based on an individual’s unique genetic makeup reducing side effects and improving patient outcomes. Advancements like these are becoming a reality thanks to new genomic sequencing techniques, big data analysis, and process improvements, which utilize HPC infrastructure for analysis and data management.

Lenovo offers high-performance and large memory systems, software, and solutions to meet the diverse needs of pharmaceutical, genomics, and healthcare companies. Providing an optimized, high-performance infrastructure and managed big data environment, Lenovo HPC solutions for Life Sciences are designed with a building-block approach to simplify cluster management and accelerate time-to-results for all your compute- and data-intensive computing needs.

Lenovo Solutions for Financial Services

With growing regulatory demands and increased focus on risk analysis, financial services companies are looking for better insights into market needs and ways to improve IT performance to meet these demands while reducing operating costs. Banks and other financial firms must constantly assess their risk exposure to comply with current regulations, using complex analysis that requires greater compute resources.

At the same time, brokerage firms, exchanges, and other trading organizations are implementing the latest high-frequency trading solutions to seize emerging opportunities and maximize gains. For these organizations, the race to zero latency continues. Finding new ways to increase workload performance, improve data throughput, and alleviate processing and networking bottlenecks is critical to achieve near-instantaneous decision making. Lenovo can help.

Lenovo and its ecosystem partners offer a broad portfolio of solutions that can help financial services organizations manage risk and capitalize on new opportunities without becoming locked into expensive, complex, proprietary environments. Solutions from Lenovo and its partners range from high-performance servers, storage systems, and networking equipment to file system and grid management software. These offerings enable organizations to accommodate compute- and data-intensive applications and deliver results rapidly.